Re: Mi Packages.gz
Ricardo Villalba decía: He estado probando el dpkg-scanpackages y finalmente he conseguido crear un Packages.gz (casi por casualidad, la verdad) que voy a subir a mi página web para que el que quiera pueda instalar los paquetes que tengo allí con el apt (son para Slink). Somos muchos los que te agradecemos el esfuerzo. Muchas gracias!!! -- Je suis petit voleur, grand faussaire, flambeur, vitriolé, dépresif, pesimiste forcené, fier, tricard, indélébile, maladroit, addict et violent - S. Gainsbourg Barbwired (The Translatrix) - U. Complutense de Madrid - Filología Inglesa Web personal http://www.bigfoot.com/~barbwired/ Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (Kernel 2.2.13) on a Dell Laptop
Re: [offtopic] La publicidad _cuesta_ en las listas Debian
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Virgilio_G=F3mez_Rubio?= wrote: Hola de nuevo: El pobrecito principiante no va a sufrir tanto como dicen Jordi y Virgilio, pues lo que le va a pasar es que recibe una respuesta explicandole con lujo de detalles que tiene que volver a escribir con subscribe en el asunto y después repetir su pregunta (creo que hasta se le dice la dirección del archivo público de debian-user-spanish). Vaya, no sabía eso. Entonces no parece tan mala la idea de cerrar la lista. De todas formas, ¿se acabará el spam? ¿Qué Seguro que como mínimo se reduciría notablemente. Los spamers que envian e-mail anónimo o con remitente falso a un montón de direcciones usando procedimientos automáticos son los peores. Si un spammer tiene que suscribirse primero con una dirección válida se lo pensará dos veces antes de hacerlo. Desde mi punto de vista se trata de poner almenos alguna dificultad. pasa si se subscribe el mismo que realiza el spam? Se elimina de la lista, pero entonces estamos en las mismas. ¿No se podría simplemente filtrar el spam? POr cierto Jaime, me ha encantado tu simil. ;-) Un saludo. VIrgilio -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
xfte. Castellano, tamaño de fuentes.
Hola. Hace tiempo, con hamm, usaba fte (xfte) y los caracteres me salían más pequeños, y me admitía correctamente las tildes. Ahora, con la slink que tengo (del verano o por ahí), las letras son más grandes, y tengo auténticos problemas con las palabras que llevan tilde. Por ejemplo, de la palabra 'distribución', sólo me sacaría 'distribuci' y se comería la última parte, o algo por el estilo. ¿Alguien ha experimentado los mismos problemas que yo? ¿Alguien me puede dar una solución? No sé si tendrá que ver con los 'locales'. De hecho, si inicio fte en una consola de las X, me da un error diciendo que el locale no está soportado. Supongo que se refiere a que no soporta el Castellano, pero, digo yo, si lo soportaba en hamm, ¿cómo no lo va a soportar en slink? ¿Que cómo tengo los locales? Pues no lo sé de memoria, puesto que ahora me encuentro en el curro, pero sí sé que las aplicaciones Gnome por ejemplo me sacan los menús y demás textos en castellano (cierto día, recuerdo haber configurado eso, lo que no sé es si lo hice bien o no :D). Sé que se puede cambiar la configuración de fte editando unos archivos y compilandolos con cfte. Lo intenté, pero no funcionó. Si alguien a quien le funcione todo bien me puede pasar su ~/.fte ... Saludos y felicices navidades para todos: Juan Carlos
Might and Magik
Buenas. Para los jugadores: Ya ha salido el Might and Magik III, también denominado HEROES III. Pasaros por http://www.lokigames.com/products/heroes3/ y podreis darle un vistazo. \|/ \|/ Have a nice day ;-) @'/ ,. \'@ TooManySecrets /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/
Es Debian Y2K (2 y fin)
Hola: No me gusta entrar en polémicas que lo único que generan es spam. Pero ya que yo inicie lo de Es Debian Y2K aclararé que mi intención no es por supuesto pedir responsabilidades a nadie, sino que alguien me hechase una mano para encontrar datos sobre el tema. Gracias a los que me han dado alguna pista. A los que me han hechado la bronca gracias también, pero les recomendaria que aplicaran su tiempo en cosas mas útiles para Debian. Feliz Navidad a todos y que el año 2000, en lugar de malos efectos, nos traiga buen rollete. -- Mecanizados, s. a. Informática. Ximo Nadal. Avda. Ausias March, 122. E-46026 VALENCIA. Tel.: +34 96 373 63 62. Fax: +34 96 373 66 03. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Server powered by Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org
Sobre .deb
Hola, ¿Hay alguna forma de saber si un paquete esta dañado tras bajarlo de Internet o transportarlo en disquete?. Creo que los paquetes de Debian vienen firmados ¿Como se hace para verificar su firma? Gracias y un saludo para todos. _ Raul GN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
acentos en X
Hola, Hace tiempo pusisteis por aqu´i que pasaba con slink y los acentos. Aunque tengo puesto lo de nodeadkeys contin´uan sin funcionar bi´en (´a´e¨i´I`O...), aunque en consola si que lo hagan. ¿Teneis alguna idea? - megaserver:~# rm -rf / megaserver:~# ^C megaserver:~# ^C ^C Trident
RE: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera
Hola, On lun, 20 dic 1999 21:46:37 Ricardo Villalba wrote: Es decir que para que reconozca los tres + como código de escape es necesario que se produzca una pausa de 1 segundo antes y después del código, y sería mucha casualidad de que se diera el caso al recibirlo en un Ese tiempo suele ser configurable. En mi modem creo recordar que era S12 (en 1/50 de segundos). No vaya a ser que lo tengas a 0 por defecto y por eso se produzca el problema. Prueba a poner ATS12=200 (nada menos que 4 segundos) en la inicialización. Un saludo, JonN
Acentos en Netscape
no me van los acentos con netscape en las X a pesar de que otras aplicaciones como StarOffice y editores si que me van... alguien que me pueda ayudar? creo que es cosa del archivo Netscape.ad pero a pesar de que lo sustiuti por uno que tenia antes y que iba bien no consegui nada ah, por si sirve de algo es la version 4.7 que viene con los paquetes de Debian y seguro que es la ultima version pq actualizo casi cada diapor apt ;) gracias por adelantado
Configuracion de EQL
Hello! En la empresa donde trabajo actualmente pusimos un proxy con un debian 2.1, kernel 2.2.13, contamos con dos lineas telefonicas y dos modems Motorola ModemSurfr 56k externos, ambos configurados y andando. Lo que quiero hacer es aprovechar ambos modems para de alguna forma sumar el ancho de banda, para eso estoy viendo de utilizar EQL. Al hacerlo me he encontrado con los siguientes problemas: * Mi ISP es *casi seguro* que no soporta EQL, y la documentacion me confunde, he visto documentacion que dice que es un requerimiento que el ISP soporte EQL, y otros documentos que dicen que si el ISP no tiene EQL no se tiene la 'maxima performance'. * En la documentacion hablan de levantar una interface 'eql', pero en mi caso necesito saber si la direccion de IP de dicha interfaz tiene que ser de la intranet (192.168.2.xxx) o de internet... En caso de que sea la ultima opcion, esta direccion de IP tienen que ser alguna de las que se asignaron a ppp0 y ppp1 o una completamente diferente? Aca mando como se ven las conexiones: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:209.13.200.224 P-t-P:209.13.170.148 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:25793 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:13 TX packets:27440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:209.13.200.176 P-t-P:209.13.170.147 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 Y la tabla de ruteo actual: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 209.13.170.148 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 209.13.170.147 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp1 192.168.4.0 192.168.2.200 255.255.255.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 00 ppp0 Alguien lo uso alguna vez? que resultados obtuvo? Maximiliano Kolus Webmaster / Programmer http://www.tlh.com.ar Not Lumber Cartel Unit 1994 (TINLC) ICQ: 21902432
Re: [OFF TOPIC] me cuelgan el modem desde afuera
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:24:51PM +0100, Jon Noble wrote: Ese tiempo suele ser configurable. En mi modem creo recordar que era S12 (en 1/50 de segundos). No vaya a ser que lo tengas a 0 por defecto y por eso se produzca el problema. Prueba a poner ATS12=200 (nada menos que 4 segundos) en la inicialización. Pues en mi modem dice lo mismo, pero hice la prueba de mandar la cadena y me lo corta de todas maneras. Sin embargo cambiando el registro S2 si que se evita el problema. Felipe Sanchez
System.map
Hola! Desde que actualicé a potato, me sale este mensaje de vez en cuando: 18:42:phucksys:root# ps Warning: /System.map not parseable as a System.map PID TTY TIME CMD 217 tty2 00:00:00 bash 5517 tty2 00:00:00 ps He recompilado el kernel, pero sigue saliendo lo mismo... Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Rofo's Theme. Ultimate Buzz. 1996 --- Pine 4.20 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Re: Problem with Mutt - GPG cooperation
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:41:52PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: 1.0 appears to be in unstable according to a search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Is it able to handle automatically multipart/splitted messages (eg. generated by mpack)? Mutt has very sophsticated handling of attachments. You can receive them, view them if text, play them if soundclips and save others if unknown type. Press the 'v' key when viewing a mail with attachments. It can probably do a lot more besides, I'm just a user. You don't need to mess about with mpack since you can attach files with the 'a' key prior to sending the message. This will automatically generate all that Multipart-Encoding stuff. HTH. -- Regards, Paul
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
On 20-Dec-1999, Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation ? I am trying to get a workstation at the office so that I can install Debian on it, and there's an offchance it might be a Compaq workstation. This machine might be a PIII 500MHz with an Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter ethernet card. You will also need to find out what graphics card it comes with, as not all cards are supported by Xfree86 (www.xfree86.org). Pete
Re: only half of physical memory showing up
Add this to the lilo.conf file: append=128M I believe it shows somewhere in the documentation. In any case, if you do a search on the Web you will find this and many other tips for lilo.conf. Nitebirdz On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! wrote: i just installed debian on a new machine and only half of the memory is showing up (64 out of 128 megs) in linux. i have the following: pototo distribution (the rescue disk for slink would not boot) athlon 550mhz processor gigabyte 200mhz athlon motherboard 1 x 128mb SDRAM DIMM the bios shows that all the memory is there when it boots, but i only have 64 megabytes available in linux. does anyone have any ideas what the problem is or what i can do to fix it? thanks is advance for any help matt kunze -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: sendmail
luis wrote: hello sorry, my problem with sendmail is that all the messages are deferred how can i disable this behaviour ? thanks a lot -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null deferred means that delivery has been put off until later, when it will try again. This happens when it was unable to deliver the mail successfully to your mail service provider's machine. Sendmail's log information is sent to /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.warn The messages there should pinpoint the problem. If they don't tell you the answer, you could post them to the list, along with your config file, and I'm sure there'll be an expert lurking out there. Have you correcly sprecified your upstream mail server in your config file /etc/sendmail.mc. You need to specify it as follows define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:post.demon.co.uk)dnl (my upstream is post.demon.co.uk) I think that this file is generated initially by the debian configuration system. Once you have edited this file, run sendmailconfig as root, log on to the network and do /etc/init.d/sendmail restart HTH. -- Regards, Paul
Re: only half of physical memory showing up
Ooops. I forgot the mem part in my previous message. This is what you should add to the lilo.conf: append=mem=128M Sorry for the little mistake. Nitebirdz On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! wrote: i just installed debian on a new machine and only half of the memory is showing up (64 out of 128 megs) in linux. i have the following: pototo distribution (the rescue disk for slink would not boot) athlon 550mhz processor gigabyte 200mhz athlon motherboard 1 x 128mb SDRAM DIMM the bios shows that all the memory is there when it boots, but i only have 64 megabytes available in linux. does anyone have any ideas what the problem is or what i can do to fix it? thanks is advance for any help matt kunze -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: compiling from debian source package
On 20-Dec-1999 Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I want to recompile several Debian source packages with pgcc. What do I edit within the debian source tree to change which compiler the build uses, and also which CFLAGS it uses? Is this something that is package specific? For starters, I am recompiling the xfree86 package. How do I make sure it uses the compiler and compiler flags I want it to when it builds? I probed around some random files within the source tree, but can't find out where it sets the compiler and compiler flags. Compiling Xfree w/ pgcc results in two things: a waste of time and a possibly broken binary. SuSE tells customers who report bugs against X compiled with pgcc to recompile before they will look at the problem. pgcc is known to cause broken code at times. It is not trustworthy, which is why Debian chose not to use it. You will find that using gcc w/ machine specific options more useful. Also note that CPU opts do not help X much, it is not horribly CPU bound for most things.
vacation week?
debs, i haven't gotten any threads since last friday. is the list taking the holiday week off or is there a problem on my end? thanks. bentley taylor. //
RE: vacation week?
On 21-Dec-1999 pplaw wrote: debs, i haven't gotten any threads since last friday. is the list taking the holiday week off or is there a problem on my end? definitately on your end
Re: Troubles with moving /var
On 20/12/99 aphro wrote: cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a probably something like (cd / ; tar -cvpf - var) | (cd /home ; tar -xvpf -) quite a bit more obnoxious then cp -a for sure, but iirc it seemed to deal with symlinks a bit better. there is a cpio way too but i'll leave that to someone else. the key is when using tar use the -p switch !! :-) -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: Troubles with moving /var
*- On 20 Dec, Ethan Benson wrote about Re: Troubles with moving /var On 20/12/99 aphro wrote: cp -a doesn't work on more obscure platforms like irix..there is a tar command..that acts like cp -a i saw it posted in a magazine(Maximum Linux) but i forgot what it was, if its linux its safe to use cp -a probably something like (cd / ; tar -cvpf - var) | (cd /home ; tar -xvpf -) quite a bit more obnoxious then cp -a for sure, but iirc it seemed to deal with symlinks a bit better. there is a cpio way too but i'll leave that to someone else. the key is when using tar use the -p switch !! :-) cd /var; find . -mount | cpio -dumpv /home/var has done the trick for me several times. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
es1370 installs but doesn't work
I'm trying to get a sb128 to work. At startup, whether compiled in or as a module, I get es1370: version v0.24 time 19:13:34 Dec 20 1999 es1370: found adapter at io 0xdc00 irq 11 es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 # cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 128 ptm 136 pts Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 22 ide1 So it's at char-major-14 right? # ls -l /dev/sndstat' crw-rw1 root audio 14, 6 Dec 20 18:13 /dev/sndstat but then, # cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device The Sound-HOWTO doesn't really have a lot of information to help here, and I don't really understand how devices work very well. I'm really at a loss. Can anyone point me towards relevant documentation? TIA, cbb
Kernel 2.2.13 dumps AX/BX/CX/DX booting
I thought I remembered seeing something about this problem before. When I boot from floppy to Kernel 2.2.13 I get 0400 AX:0212 BX:7000 CX:5001 DX:. over and over again. I tried searching the list archives but I kept getting no articles found. What's the problem here? Thanks, John
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: il.cybercable.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100 Resent-Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/76022 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 20408 Status: U On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: MK get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. MK ^^^ MK This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. MK MKNow you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not MKshure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... MK MKMirek IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. Yes it's needed but you said first few sectors of the disk, no just copy it into partition. Mirek If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector. How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?) Sorry for being so dumb in this field... :) -- I already have all the latest software. -- Laura Winslow, Family Matters Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG Public Key: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpmDJ5LPsXEF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Non-freeness
J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: dnsutils is built from the bind source, which contains non-free code from RSA labs dealing with secure DNS. I believe arrangements have been made with the ISC that will make / have made it possible for bind's source to go in main again. Actually, bind and dnsutils have been back in main for months now. -- see shy jo
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector. How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?) I would try: mkfs -t msdos /dev/name_of_device And then copy the windoze files to the partition and make it bootable from fdisk. Please, anyone let know if that was utter nonsense Y. -- Bluestream The Flying Elephant. [EMAIL PROTECTED] `Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.' Zappa
Re: es1370 installs but doesn't work
Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB == Chris Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB I'm trying to get a sb128 to work. At startup, whether CB compiled in or as a module, I get es1370: version v0.24 time CB 19:13:34 Dec 20 1999 es1370: found adapter at io 0xdc00 irq 11 CB es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 That looks about right. CB crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 6 Dec 20 18:13 /dev/sndstat CB CB but then, CB CB # cat /dev/sndstat CB CB cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device that happens on my system too, but why are you trying to do this ? I'm following the Sound-HOWTO :-( CB CB The Sound-HOWTO doesn't really have a lot of information to help CB here, and I don't really understand how devices work very well. CB I'm really at a loss. Can anyone point me towards relevant CB documentation? I haven't read the Sound-HOWTO so I don't know what steps are mentioned in there. Well, it's a good thing you didn't--you might have gotten stuck too! To get the SB PCI128 to work, I compiled in support for the es1370 into the kernel. Then I added myself (non-root) to the audio group, and that was all. After that, I was able to play Audio CDs and mp3s. O.K. I tried it, and it works. Thanks for pointing out the stuff about the audio group. I would have gotten stuck there next. The only strange thing I remember having to do was to give o+r permissions to the CDROM device which appears as /dev/hdc so that non-root users could play Audio CDs. Other than that, the SB PCI128 was a breeze to setup (using the kernel drivers). Many thanks for your help, cbb
Re: Troubles with newer IMAP binaries
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Timm Gleason wrote: I have been having problems with the newer versions of the IMAP daemon. The last version the works, somewhat is the 4.4 package from BO. After upgrading a bunch of packages to the Potato versions, I noticed that Outlook would not connect to my IMAP server anymore. I've seen the solution while scanning the Debian-user mailing lists. Basically try this: cd /etc ; mv cram-md5.pwd cram-md5.pwd.bak regards, = == Andre M. Varon - Technical Head = = == Lasaltech, Inc. - http://andre.lasaltech.com = === = = = = If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. = = -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
Re: Kernel 2.2.13 dumps AX/BX/CX/DX booting
John Dalbec wrote: I thought I remembered seeing something about this problem before. When I boot from floppy to Kernel 2.2.13 I get 0400 AX:0212 BX:7000 CX:5001 DX:. over and over again. I tried searching the list archives but I kept getting no articles found. What's the problem here? Thanks, John Hi John, I believe that's a dump of the CPU's accumulators, but what really matters is that it normally means that your floppy disk is bad. It's happened to me several times and in all but one case recreating the floppy fixed it. The one case that recreating the floppy didn't fix it turned out to be a loose connection on the floppy drive itself. If you've compiled your own kernel you should be able to cd to /usr/src/linux and do a make bzdisk to recreate your floppy. John -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: Kernel 2.2.13 dumps AX/BX/CX/DX booting
it would be helpful to know 1) where you got that kernel 2) if you did compile it yourself what compiler did you use 3) if you know what processor is it optmized for 4) what kind of CPU is in the system nate On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, John Dalbec wrote: jdalbe I thought I remembered seeing something about this problem before. jdalbe When I boot from floppy to Kernel 2.2.13 I get jdalbe 0400 jdalbe AX:0212 jdalbe BX:7000 jdalbe CX:5001 jdalbe DX:. jdalbe over and over again. jdalbe I tried searching the list archives but I kept getting no articles found. jdalbe What's the problem here? jdalbe Thanks, jdalbe John jdalbe jdalbe jdalbe -- jdalbe Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null jdalbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:39pm up 123 days, 10:29, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.31, 0.28
SCSI ttyS2
When running with new kernel 2.2.15 compiled with SCSI support for Initio's 9100 I see (using setserial /dev/ttyS2) that serial port ttyS2 is busy (actually device or port is busy). What is the reason for that ? How to resolve the problem since I'm using this port for modem ? Will usage of modules help (SCSI support as module). B.
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
I have a number of Compaq Deskpro EN's and EP's. Everything works fine except for one major problem: about 1 out of 3 times I boot the keyboard will go completely dead (you can still logon through the network however). I'm not the only one who had this problem, at the time I started working with these Compaqs I posted a few messages on the web and got replies from other people reporting the same kind of problems. We never figured out what was the reason. This was one of the reasons why I finaly switched to buying Dell in stead of Compaq. Anyway, I installed potato on a Deskpro EP 6350 and after some keyboard trouble during installation it seems to run stable with kernel 2.2.13. However I'm not sure whether this is coincidence or whether it realy got fixed. Personaly I wouldn't go for Compaq. Nico On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: Has anyone tried installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation ? I am trying to get a workstation at the office so that I can install Debian on it, and there's an offchance it might be a Compaq workstation. This machine might be a PIII 500MHz with an Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter ethernet card. Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 01:43:42PM -0600, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users more productive? Seems to me that his draconic nothing but NT stance runs counter to this. And this at an institute for higher learning and enlightened thinking... what a shame. Well, I _am_ the original instigator of the bias, as I inadvertently brought the system to its knees with a kernel upgrade. I can't (and don't try to) back out of that responsibility. We've got this unofficial consensus that we'd rather have our people breaking the network with Linux before the students do it from their dorm rooms. This way we can learn from the experiences and yet still have some control. Otherwise, when the students do it, we'll be caught with our pants down. It sounds like these network admins at the school in Bakersfield already have their pants tied around their necks cutting off oxygen to the brain anyway. I sent a long-winded reply direct to the professor himself, but I coudn't resist pointing out in a public forum that if memory serves me correctly, Bakersfield is a public-funded college. And they're pushing a commercial product via their unwillingness to allow the good Dr. to use his Linux system due to their poor network design and lack of troubleshooting skills for when it's broken. Politically this could put the school in some hot water if enough people were upset about it... Anyway, sorry about the rant. Just annoyed at these so-called professionals who boot various types of systems off their networks because they don't understand them. It's even more annoying when they work for an institution that claims to foster higher learning. Nate, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable MSDOS filesystem from Linux
MKIf I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then MKcommand.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I MKneed is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a MKLinux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector. MKHow exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields MKin dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?) MK MKSorry for being so dumb in this field... :) MK If you make bootable floppy from Linux, you have MS-Dos 6.22 Bootable floppys. If you are in Win95 and make a bootable floppy it loads IO.SYS from the c: root to the floppy, which is the MS-Dos 7.0/7.1 version. Linux can not write the MS-Dos 7.0/7.1 IO.SYS. Michelle
IP
hello when i connect using ppp and get a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.221 i can not make a telnet to me from another machine from another machine (cenected using eth0) i can ping to the machine using ppp, but when i try to make a telnet to the ppp machine i always get the following: trying 195.243.107.221 telnet: unable to conect to remote host: no route to host my IP always gives me a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.xxx the gateway is: 195.243.104.1 i can make outbound services: web, ftp, email (out and in), etc but i need inbound access to that machine with ppp where is the failure? in my end? with my ISP? i believe that the IP of the gateway is reserved, and that the IP given to me are C class, does this have some influence? is possible to make a telnet to my machine using these IPs ? thanks a lot erasmo
What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?
What's the purpose of these files? And is the older version of glibc (version 2.0, right?) synonymous with libc5, and the newer version of glibc (2.2?) synonymous with libc6? I'm a little confused because I thought my system was pretty up-to-date, but when I tried to remove libc5, dselect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is a relatively new program. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
How do I install Netscape with Debian?
I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should automagically install the tarball for me. Is this off base? Why are there so many netscape/navigator/communicator packages listed when I run dselect --- smotif, dmotif, base, java, etc.? Do I need any of these, too? Information overload... -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Virus scanner
Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use Debian GNU/Linux! Email: Michael@Fam-Meskes.De | Use PostgreSQL!
plextor cd-r trouble
Hello: I've been struggling with getting my Plextor Plexwriter 412 to work for quite some time now. I think I have nearly exhausted every possible trouble shooting option, and the drive still does not work. Also this is my second drive of the same model, I sent the first one back to the factory on warranty. The following lengthy message is a description of my system, software errors, etc., hopefully enough relevant information to make some progress. My scsi system consists of the following internal components: - Adaptec 2940UW pcsi scsi controller - Plextor PlexWriter 412c SCSI cd-r - Seagate ST34371W Barracuda 4.3 gig scsi hard drive The Adaptec 2940uw controller has two internal connectors, a 50-pin narrow connector and a 68-pin wide connector. I have separate cables for my two drives (the cd-r and harddrive). I have termination enabled on all components (because the card and two drives are each at their physical ends of the scsi cable, i.e. there is no chain). In terms of software, I've tried the following: Linux kernel version 2.2.13 with the stock sg (scsi generic) drivers, and cdrecord 1.6 (installed from Debian package). Next I tried the same version of cdrecord, but with the Linux kernel 2.2.13 patched with the enhanced sg drivers written by the author of cdrecord. Then I tried the latest alpha of cdrecord 1.8 (alpha 34 at the time) still with my patched linux kernel 2.2.13 (i.e. with the other sg drivers). The output of two typical dummy burns that fail, using cdrecord 1.6: burn one: Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 03 74 00 00 0D 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 04 0A 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 07 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x07 (write error - recovery needed) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 1034 (valid) cmd finished after 0.005s timeout 40s write track data: error after 2079168 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cdrecord: Success. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 02 1C 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 540 (valid) cmd finished after 3.501s timeout 120s Trouble flushing the cache Writing time: 28.151s Fixating... burn two: Starting new track at sector: 0 cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 18.032s timeout 40s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 23.050s Fixating... cdrecord: Success. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 04 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x04 (current program area is empty) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s Fixating time:0.002s cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. dmesg output: Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version pgcc-2.95.2 19991024 \ (release)) #1 Wed Dec 8 01:01:07 CST 1999 Detected 265911474 Hz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS Memory: 95632k/98304k available (964k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1232k \ data, 64k init) CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd921 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: 00:00 [8086/1237]: Passive release enable (00) Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 matroxfb: Matrox Millennium (PCI) detected matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 1024x768x24bpp (virtual: 1024x1365) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xFF00, mapped to 0xc6805000, size 4194304 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device vesafb: framebuffer at
Re: What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?
its all libc .. glibc i believe is just GNU Libc (but i could be wrong) libc5 = obsolete, but still used by many programs like netscape, real audio/video, star office, xview ..and many more..most of them either not maintained very well or not maintained at all. the authors find it easier to just recompile to libc5 rather then make the changes to support glibc glibc2.0 = libc6 most open source stuff runs best on this glibc2.1 = pretty major update to libc, some programs like mozilla (recent builds) and lotus notes require glibc2.1 to work. at least thats how i understand it .. nate On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant What's the purpose of these files? And is the older version of glibc djkant (version 2.0, right?) synonymous with libc5, and the newer version of glibc djkant (2.2?) synonymous with libc6? djkant djkant I'm a little confused because I thought my system was pretty up-to-date, but djkant when I tried to remove libc5, dselect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is djkant a relatively new program. djkant djkant -- djkant David J. Kanter djkant [EMAIL PROTECTED] djkant djkant Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies djkant and coincidences. djkant -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University djkant djkant djkant -- djkant Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null djkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:45am up 123 days, 12:35, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.39, 0.31
Re: How do I install Netscape with Debian?
if you use netscape 3 you should be able to: apt-get install netscape3 if you use v4 then apt-get install netscape4 i ignore the rest of the stuff, looks like netscape that is linked with motif(either statically or dynamically) motif from what i read is about as non free as one can get(although there is a lesstif free alternative..) you should get a full install using either the netscape3 or netscape4 packages. im not a new debian user but i am for sure a new apt user..by running apt-get install netscape it showed me everything that was a netscape package.. i dont use the .deb though i just run the netscape installer..or if i do use the deb i make sure to comment out the stuff that prevents it running as root :) im not that paranoid. nate On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, David J. Kanter wrote: djkant I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. djkant From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the djkant tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp djkant directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should djkant automagically install the tarball for me. djkant djkant Is this off base? djkant djkant Why are there so many netscape/navigator/communicator packages listed when I djkant run dselect --- smotif, dmotif, base, java, etc.? Do I need any of these, too? djkant djkant Information overload... djkant djkant -- djkant David J. Kanter djkant [EMAIL PROTECTED] djkant djkant Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies djkant and coincidences. djkant -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University djkant djkant djkant -- djkant Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null djkant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:45am up 123 days, 12:35, 2 users, load average: 0.45, 0.39, 0.31
Re: What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 02:09:20AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: What's the purpose of these files? And is the older version of glibc (version 2.0, right?) synonymous with libc5, and the newer version of glibc (2.2?) synonymous with libc6? 2.0 == libc5, 2.1 == glibc , 2.2 == ¿ I'm a little confused because I thought my system was pretty up-to-date, but when I tried to remove libc5, dselect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is a relatively new program. Yes, but Netscape is built against the older C library. That's why you need it. Mozilla is built against the new C library, but it's not fully functional yet :-( -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: Can't find a valid termcap
Subject: Re: Can't find a valid termcap Date: Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:25:56PM -0800 In reply to:Joey Hess Quoting Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Patrick Kirk wrote: | This is still bugging me. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve | this termcap question? | | Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at | /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 | | Simply install libterm-readline-gnu-perl, or ignore the warning, or wait | until perl finally gets fixed to not output this warning. I had already updated before I reported my problem so I hope that Joey's suggestion works for you Patrick. -- To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ___
SoundBlaster 16 PCI configuration?
Seasons greetings to all... I am trying to configure Soundblaster 16 PCI cards to run in Dell Optiplex machines. If I use lspci it tells me that the card is an ensoniq es1371 device with address dcc0 and IRQ 11, but no other information I am trying to compile a kernel for this. Do I include PnP support? Do I configure for the 1370 and/or 1371 drivers, or the Soundblaster drivers. If the Soundblaster, what values do I use for the DMAs, and the other IO addresses and IRQs Should I compile them into the kernel, or leave them as modules? I am trying to use the v2.2.1 kernel under slink. With the time I have spent messing with this, this cheap card is turning out to be *very* expensive. Thanks in advance for any help, Dave Whiteley
Re: SoundBlaster 16 PCI configuration?
If lspci lists the card as ES1371, this should be quite simple. I believe all you need to do in the kernel config is to: 1) enable sound card support 2) enable support for the ES1371 Plug and play doesn't matter in this case, nor should it matter whether you compile the driver into the kernel or as a module. I have an ES1370 card (Sound Blaster PCI64) and, for what it's worth, I compiled it into the kernel. For PCI cards you don't have to be concerned with specifying the IRQ, DMA etc. Good luck, Tom Dave Whiteley wrote: Seasons greetings to all... I am trying to configure Soundblaster 16 PCI cards to run in Dell Optiplex machines. If I use lspci it tells me that the card is an ensoniq es1371 device with address dcc0 and IRQ 11, but no other information I am trying to compile a kernel for this. Do I include PnP support? Do I configure for the 1370 and/or 1371 drivers, or the Soundblaster drivers. If the Soundblaster, what values do I use for the DMAs, and the other IO addresses and IRQs Should I compile them into the kernel, or leave them as modules? I am trying to use the v2.2.1 kernel under slink. With the time I have spent messing with this, this cheap card is turning out to be *very* expensive. Thanks in advance for any help, Dave Whiteley --
Re: Can one keep networks apart on a machine?
I kind of like the suggestion from a previous post that this ignorant net admin of yours be brought to task over his administrative decisions. Isn't his job ultimately to provide a network infrastructure that makes end-users more productive? Seems to me that his draconic nothing but NT stance runs counter to this. And this at an institute for higher learning and enlightened thinking... what a shame. Well, I _am_ the original instigator of the bias, as I inadvertently brought the system to its knees with a kernel upgrade. I can't (and don't try to) back out of that responsibility. But I still feel that the problems they had tracking down Me as the culprit of the packet broadcasting issue indicates a flaw in their abilities/available tools to manage serious problems. There was no general communication about the problem with the general college community at all, and I can't help but feel that I could have quickly isolated the problem (at least) by sequentially chopping off various parts of the LAN from one another (were I in his shoes). (And Linux worked so WELL in the system, too. Damn.) You are right when you say that -they- should be able to manage such problems. You are only a user that did something wrong, they should have informed you about the problem and asked you to correct it. Nothing more, nothing less... I shudder to think what would happen if a serious hacker went into the system. (A local fellow was crackling at the sides as he told me about the state of their firewall. But they may have tidied it up a bit since then.) But I may be all wet about that (I know nothing about LAN management/setup/etc). If I was de sysadmin I would be worried that a simple problem as this would bring the LAN to its knees. I would try to fix the problem -and- do what you did all over again in a test setup to insure myself that the LAN can handle the problem... Anyway, IMHO a sysadmin that fixes problems like this is not capable to administer a LAN and should be replaced. Regards, Onno
Re: IP
luis wrote: hello when i connect using ppp and get a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.221 i can not make a telnet to me from another machine from another machine (cenected using eth0) i can ping to the machine using ppp, but when i try to make a telnet to the ppp machine i always get the following: trying 195.243.107.221 telnet: unable to conect to remote host: no route to host my IP always gives me a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.xxx the gateway is: 195.243.104.1 i can make outbound services: web, ftp, email (out and in), etc but i need inbound access to that machine with ppp where is the failure? in my end? with my ISP? i believe that the IP of the gateway is reserved, and that the IP given to me are C class, does this have some influence? is possible to make a telnet to my machine using these IPs ? thanks a lot erasmo telnet seems to have a -d option for debug, did you try that ? Otherwise, general hints are : tail -f /var/log/messages on one terminal while you execute telnet on another to see if any helpful messages arrive there. Sometimes doing an strace your command 2log.file will show the problem. The tricky part is in interpreting the file. The best bet is to start at the end of the file, where you should see the error message being printed out. Of course, you need the strace package, and it's entirely possible that the answer won't be here. Dare I say it ... try connecting with a telnet prog on another operating system in case there is a setup prob on Linux causing the effect. It possible that your ISP blocks all telnet traffic. Why not phone and ask them ? If that's the cause, you need an ISP upgrade ... -- Regards, Paul
APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
Does anybody out there use this UPS to protect Linux boxes from power failure? I'm trying to figure out what is the best among all the available packages (apcd, pacupsd, genpower, ...), to manage such a kind of UPS. I'm getting more and more confused reading all the documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, and so on. Any suggestion? Thanx, Alberto
Re: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'No such device'
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: i had a hellva time getting printing to work..to this day i still cannot 'lpr filename' or 'lp filename' but printing through samba, or through netscape or wordperfect or staroffice works fine.. odd too because netscape shows the command it's using as lpr filename, and it works fine, but it wont do shit at the command prompt ..ohwell We will get this fixed, too! But we need some more info: What printer do you use? What's your printing filter setup, do you use magicfilter? I had some problems printing text files from the command line until I found out, that my printer can only do postscript, not pure text. So I had to convert every text file to PS with mpage or enscript. Maybe yours can also only do PS. What happens when you do cat textfile.txt /dev/lp0 and cat postcriptfil.ps /dev/lp0 ? bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
How do I install Netscape with Debian? (fwd)
I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should automagically install the tarball for me. yup, just download the netscape glibc tarbal and chuck it into /tmp. make sure it's owned by root and that you have the packages netscape depends on (in particular motifnls often needs to be newly installed). then dpkg -i ur netscape deb and ahoy, nutscrape is yours. from da Bobstopper
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:27:21 + (/etc/localtime), Alberto Maurizi wrote: I'm getting more and more confused reading all the documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, and so on. So do I. Even worse: NONE of the ups daemons seem to work. We use the apcupsd to drive a SmartUPS 2200. Shutting the machine down DOES work, but the daemon doesn't shut down the UPS?! Hints anyone?! -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
MTA
Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Is this really true?
On 12/20/99, Henry Kingman addressed Is this really true?: are only reliable on Windows machines. Joining the conference from the iMac and Linux platforms produced slide shows that wouldn't advance, consoles that were corrupted or frozen, and even a few hard crashes. This doesn't say on which platform(s) the problems were manifested. DR-DOS? Hmmm. What if one tried it without any Windows machines? Jesse
Debianized Mutt-i 1.0 for slink! (WAS: Problem with Mutt - GPG cooperation)
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:50:21PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:41:52PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
I had this problem too and upgraded to mutt 1.0i and it's gone away, so
I guess it was a known bug that got fixed.
Is the mutt 1.0i available somewhere as a debian package?
1.0 appears to be in unstable according to a search on
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
I have successfully debianized mutt.1.0i downloaded from
ftp://ftp.guug.de/pub/mutt/mutt-1.0i.tar.gz
All I had to do was:
1. unpack the tar.gz in the ~/tmp directory
2. enter the mutt-1.0 directory
3. modify the charsets/parse_i18n.c (otherwise the compile error occured),
adding the
STATE struct definition
Below is the part of my mutt_1.0-1.diff.gz file:
--- mutt-1.0.orig/charsets/parse_i18n.c
+++ mutt-1.0/charsets/parse_i18n.c
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
#include string.h
#include ctype.h
+typedef struct
+{
+ FILE *fpin;
+ FILE *fpout;
+ char *prefix;
+ int flags;
+} STATE;
+
#include ../charset.h
4. run the dpkg-buildpackage
That's all. Now my mutt works excellent with GnuPG!
Thanks for all who helped.
--
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Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: So do I. Even worse: NONE of the ups daemons seem to work. We use the apcupsd to drive a SmartUPS 2200. Shutting the machine down DOES work, but the daemon doesn't shut down the UPS?! Hints anyone?! apcupsd seems to see all the settings of my UPS but through httpaccess but I'm unable to change EPROM setting (as can I do using windoze PowerChute). Further, the daemon seems unable to shut down even the machine! I've also noticed that my cable is 940-0095B rather than 95A, as claimed by APC. Do you think this can be the cause of my problems? I obtained some random behaviour (with some succsessful shutdown on power failure) using genpower (shutting down through the init process). But I couldn't reproduce it regularly. None of the other packages seems so attactive. I also sent a query for information to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/library/whattodo/index.htm#TOP) Still waiting for reply.
Re: How do I install Netscape with Debian?
What works for me is downloading the netscape from the netscape site (for linux version) and installing it according to their instructions. David J. Kanter wrote: I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should automagically install the tarball for me. Is this off base? Why are there so many netscape/navigator/communicator packages listed when I run dselect --- smotif, dmotif, base, java, etc.? Do I need any of these, too? Information overload... -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: MTA
peter karlsson wrote: Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I've had no problems with Debian packaged sendmail. The script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/sendmail restarts the daemon when you connect to your ISP, and you can have a different set-up for each ISP by putting the config info in /etc/mail/peers/provider. There should be no manual intervention reqd. -- Regards, Paul
Re: IP
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 Luis: It looks like some gateway between you and the host you're trying to telnet to is acting as a firewall and blocking the telnet port (23). I believe the no route to host error is consistent with that situation. It might also be possible that you're not running telnetd on that host, or that you've disabled access through /etc/hosts.deny or through firewalling rules on the host itself. Some things to try: 1. Verify that the telnet daemon is enabled. In /etc/inetd.conf, this line should not be commented out: telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd 2. At least temporarily, set /etc/hosts.allow like this to allow access from any machine: ALL:ALL 3. Check your firewalling rules: $ ipfwadm -Il $ ipfwadm -Ol Look for deny rules on the telnet port. Post your results to the list. Good luck. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/21 2:11 AM hello when i connect using ppp and get a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.221 i can not make a telnet to me from another machine from another machine (cenected using eth0) i can ping to the machine using ppp, but when i try to make a telnet to the ppp machine i always get the following: trying 195.243.107.221 telnet: unable to conect to remote host: no route to host my IP always gives me a dynamic IP as 195.243.107.xxx the gateway is: 195.243.104.1 i can make outbound services: web, ftp, email (out and in), etc but i need inbound access to that machine with ppp where is the failure? in my end? with my ISP? i believe that the IP of the gateway is reserved, and that the IP given to me are C class, does this have some influence? is possible to make a telnet to my machine using these IPs ? thanks a lot erasmo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DNS slow?
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Onno wrote: My experiance with older versions of netscape under windows is the same, so this -could- be a netsacpe issue... Regards, Onno Thanks Onno, I checked with lynx, which does not give the error, so it is really a nestcape issue :( JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have junk mail.
Re: ??? :undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Bob Brown wrote: Here is my problem: My end goal is to install StarOffice 51. I loaded hamm from my cd, upgraded to slink using apt-get from ftp.debian.org, then pulled down XFree86 3.3.5 (current) for glibc. When I run startx I get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info This primitive can be found @ http://www.suse.com, look up for XServers page, at the bottom, you'll find the regframe.rpm. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have junk mail.
Re: Troubles with moving /var
Ciao Alberto Bigazzi, I actually did it by hand, by tar-ing /var, copying it under /home and untaring it there. Then deleting /var and symlinking /home/var to /var. But I guess this is something VERY BAD as I ended up with lots of problems with PERMISSIONS. Now normal users CANNOT write into directories under /var, like /var/log or /var/lock, so I get lots of troubles of any kind... I have done the same things, with the same errors... :-) I think that the problems are all that daemons that don't want to recognize the changes. shutdown now should fix all (or stop restart all daemons). Ciao -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it
Installation on Dell Dimension 486's
Hi all Has anyone got any ideas about installing on the above ? I have a couple of 486/66DL's 16Mb, one with and one without ATAPI cdrom, both run Dell/Phoenix Bios v.A00/A03 - installing using either rescue or rescue-safe fails on both at the: Loading root.bin... (one gives 3 dots, the other 4 !) Have used the same disks to install successfully on both Dell Dimension 466i (similar bios) and Dell NetPlex 450DX Graham Woodruff
Re: FrameMaker 5.5.6 for LINUX
Hello, Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Syrus, could you please tell us how you got FrameMaker running? I have a potato system, upgraded weekely using apt-get. FrameMaker will not run at all, I get no error messages, I just get the $ prompt back again. Am I perhaps missing some vital library? I added my license OK as described in the text which came back with the license number. Framemaker runs fine on my potato system. Those who registered with a correct e-mail address, got the appended mail from Adobe this morning. Harald --- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:15:23 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FM Linux Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FrameMaker on Linux Update Late-Breaking FrameMaker Linux News This email is being sent to registered users of FrameMaker on Linux, based on feedback received through [EMAIL PROTECTED] It contains information about three issues that prevent FrameMaker from launching or running on some Linux installations. Details and possible workarounds are noted below. We apologize for any inconvenience these issues may have caused, and appreciate the time you've spent downloading and trying FrameMaker on Linux. As before, please continue sending comments to our feedback address: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As before, we cannot respond to individual emails. Thanks for trying this beta of FrameMaker on Linux! Lee Richardson FrameMaker Development Manager _ (1) C library incompatibiliy with some distributions of Linux, including Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.1. Users will typically see the following message in this case: ./maker: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info The FrameMaker executable is incompatible with certain releases of version 2.0.7 of the GNU C Library, which are included with some distributions noted above. FrameMaker will not run on systems with this incompatibility, unless access to a different version of the C Library is provided. (2) Lack of portmap/rpcbind services leads to FrameMaker crashing or hanging When 'maker' is started, the following alert appears: No licenses available. Run in demo mode?. Answering Yes may trigger a crash or other undesirable behavior. When running 'demomaker', the application may crash or hang with no alert. As described in the System Requirements, portmap/rpcbind services must be enabled on the local workstation. Otherwise unpredictable behavior may occur including crashes and hangs. Starting a portmap/rpcbind service on the local workstation should fix this problem. (3) FrameMaker crashes trying to display splash screen on 16-bit X servers. When 'maker' or 'demomaker' are started on an X server set to 16-bit depth, the application will generally crash just after displaying a blue window in the middle of the screen. FrameMaker does not currently support 16-bit (or 15-bit) display depth, and is failing to recognize the situation in time to exit gracefully. If the splash screen display is disabled, FrameMaker does not halt immediately, but will eventually crash or corrupt internal data. Running at 16-bit depth is not safe in the current release, even if it seems to be working. Displaying to a server running with a depth of 8, 24, or 32 should work fine. _ ---
Re: Still Can't Print
David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I upgraded from kernel 2.0.35 to 2.2.13 and can no longer print. I As temporary solution for such situation I have created a simple Bash file with the call of GhostScript (gs) with direct output (output file) assigned to the /dev/lp1 . changed /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0 in /etc/printcap but that didn't fix it. If you just cat _one-text-file_ /dev/lp1 you will be sure which one to use. And you have to check it to be sure about printer still operate. The print spooler appears to be starting normally, and everything else is set up as it was with the old kernel. When I try to print something I get no error messages, nothing. Files do appear in the spool directory as before. Your log of LPD start up should be checked very carefully. For me it was a security issue when LPD can't start. Pavel. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Adding a second NIC
Hi all, How would I add a 2nd NIC (linksys 10/100 PCI)to my debian 2.1 apache server?
Re: Adding a second NIC
At 10:01 AM 12/21/99 -0500, mhammonds wrote: Hi all, How would I add a 2nd NIC (linksys 10/100 PCI)to my debian 2.1 apache server? For loadbalancing ? Regards, Onno
Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: NDR == Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NDR I have a number of Compaq Deskpro EN's and EP's. Everything NDR works fine except for one major problem: about 1 out of 3 times NDR I boot the keyboard will go completely dead (you can still NDR logon through the network however). Does this also happen when you boot NT workstation ? So far, I have (re)booted my DeskPro EN system a number of times and the keyboard (and other HW) has been fine. Nope, Windows NT/9X runs fine :-(. I had this problem with a lot of Compaqs (actualy all of the new-model EN en EP's that I have.) Note however: I bought my last Compaq somewhere around June I think, so perhaps it has been solved in newer models. Note2: that Compaq I installed last week (running kernel 2.2.13) still runs fine so I guess that solves it too. NDR NDR Personaly I wouldn't go for Compaq. Neither would I. I prefer either a PC clone with components individually spec-ed out, or one of the newer Dell systems. But, frankly, I'll take whatever I can get to run Debian on ;) My users started complaining that there are no old systems available anymore. We used to sell the old systems, however now I'm turning all of them into servers running Debian -) Nico -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It has been said that there are only two businesses refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MTA
peter karlsson said: I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). I use exim and diald. They handle mail for me without any problems, although exim (by default, at least) wants to send out all mail immediately. I'm sure you can change that so it only tries to send when the link is already up, but I like it the way it is. (When mail is sent, exim tries to pass it on, which causes diald to bring the link up. exim sends, fetchmail pulls incoming mail, and the link goes back down, usually in less than a minute. If the link can't be brought up right away, exim keeps trying until it can.) -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Exim
Hi, I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send any email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following error message. 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: procmail director deferred: file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied Does anyone know what is going on and how to get it working? I have run eximconfig again and i select option 1 (internet mail) but that still doesn't work! Regards Graham
dpkg/apt getting Section line wrong
I think this is a bug and I'm wondering whether I should file it in the BTS. The problem is, looking at the current bug lists for dpkg and apt, filing bugs against them seems to be more or less a waste of time. Also, I don't know which one has the problem. But the problem is: I use apt more-or-less exclusively to keep my system up to date (which invokes dpkg, obviously). However, /var/lib/dpkg/status (and hence dpkg -s) disagrees with /var/state/apt/lists/* about the Section line of some packages. Apt is correct. It appears that dpkg is using *old* sections and not updating the section line when the package is upgraded. The examples I have found were identified by vrms; the following entries are in error: ssh: dpkg says non-US/non-free, but apt knows that it's really just in non-US dnsutils: dpkg says non-free/net, apt says just net Is it legal to hand-modify /var/lib/dpkg/status? I'd like to get these packages out of my vrms output, if nothing else. Is there some other way to do this? Better yet: What should I do about getting this fixed? I don't even know what package the bug should be against, and either of the likely candidates seem to more-or-less ignore bug reports. I don't mind looking through source code to try to figure out the problem, but I don't want to have to download 100 -dev packages before I can even try. Any suggestions? Thanks, Stuart. PS I discussed this already in the thread Non-freeness, but I didn't discover the actual problem until very deep in the thread.
Fritz!X PC and Linux
Hello, I recently bought a Fritz!X PC with an integrated ISDN-Controller. This box connect to the serial port. Is there a possibility to use it with Linux. If so, how? Any hints? TIA Robert PS: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not on this list. Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: MTA
Dave Sherohman: I use exim and diald. They handle mail for me without any problems, although exim (by default, at least) wants to send out all mail immediately. That's what I don't want, since I'll be running dial-up. It'd be nice if I could have it call and send/receive mail at pre-determined times of day, though. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: es1370 installs but doesn't work
Chris Baker wrote: Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB == Chris Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CB I'm trying to get a sb128 to work. At startup, whether CB compiled in or as a module, I get es1370: version v0.24 time CB 19:13:34 Dec 20 1999 es1370: found adapter at io 0xdc00 irq 11 CB es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 That looks about right. CB crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 6 Dec 20 18:13 /dev/sndstat CB CB but then, CB CB # cat /dev/sndstat CB CB cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device that happens on my system too, but why are you trying to do this ? I'm following the Sound-HOWTO :-( CB CB The Sound-HOWTO doesn't really have a lot of information to help CB here, and I don't really understand how devices work very well. CB I'm really at a loss. Can anyone point me towards relevant CB documentation? I haven't read the Sound-HOWTO so I don't know what steps are mentioned in there. Well, it's a good thing you didn't--you might have gotten stuck too! To get the SB PCI128 to work, I compiled in support for the es1370 into the kernel. Then I added myself (non-root) to the audio group, and that was all. After that, I was able to play Audio CDs and mp3s. O.K. I tried it, and it works. Thanks for pointing out the stuff about the audio group. I would have gotten stuck there next. The only strange thing I remember having to do was to give o+r permissions to the CDROM device which appears as /dev/hdc so that non-root users could play Audio CDs. Other than that, the SB PCI128 was a breeze to setup (using the kernel drivers). Many thanks for your help, cbb So Chris, your ES1370 works properly now? Can you do a cat /dev/sndstat? I've got an ES1371 that I've been wrestling off-and-on for months with. It's not important enough to buckle down and fix it, but it really bothers me that some of the HOWTO information seems to be so irrelevant concerning this card, like the inability to do a cat /dev/sndstat. I just don't have confidence in the HOWTO because of this, and the troubleshooting information just isn't there in enough detail to figure out what's going wrong. So anyway, after ranting here, my only question is, again, can you do a cat /dev/sndstat or does it still fail even though your sound card is working? Thanks.
Re: MTA
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). I've found postfix to be my favorite mta thus far. It's configuration is very easy. There is now a debian package of postfix. I did a /usr/local install, though, because I was previously unaware of the Deb package. I have postfix setup to defer messages until I explicitly flush the outgoing mail queue. I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection. I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: plextor cd-r trouble
On 12/21/99, Matt Garman addressed plextor cd-r trouble: My scsi system consists of the following internal components: - Adaptec 2940UW pcsi scsi controller - Plextor PlexWriter 412c SCSI cd-r - Seagate ST34371W Barracuda 4.3 gig scsi hard drive The Adaptec 2940uw controller has two internal connectors, a 50-pin narrow connector and a 68-pin wide connector. I have separate cables for my two drives (the cd-r and harddrive). I have termination enabled on all components (because the card and two drives are each at their physical ends of the scsi cable, i.e. there is no chain). From this description and your dmesg output below, I take it you have no external devices? If you did, it would be a factor, since it lengthens one of the SCSI chains. At least with a BusLogic BT-958. On a similar note, I wonder if your two internal SCSI cables together form a single logical chain. That would also impose length limitations, and possibly change your termination configuration. Good luck! Jesse -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
Re: MTA
Matt Garman wrote: I've found postfix to be my favorite mta thus far. It's configuration is very easy. There is now a debian package of postfix. I did a /usr/local install, though, because I was previously unaware of the Deb package. I have postfix setup to defer messages until I explicitly flush the outgoing mail queue. I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection. I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. Count me in as another vote for postfix. I used to run qmail back when I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I switched to Debian. postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being designed from the beginning for security. jpb -- Joe Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.
Installing Potato with dselect apt
I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing programs that deselect refuses to continue... I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install the default 50 or so. Has anyone done this lately? This is not an upgrade, but a fresh install.
Re: plextor cd-r trouble
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:11:29AM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: From this description and your dmesg output below, I take it you have no external devices? If you did, it would be a factor, since it lengthens one of the SCSI chains. At least with a BusLogic BT-958. Nope, I don't have any external devices. On a similar note, I wonder if your two internal SCSI cables together form a single logical chain. That would also impose length limitations, and possibly change your termination configuration. Well, the dual cable setup was not my original setup. I used to have the cd-r and harddrive on the same ribbon, and used a 68-to-50 pin adapter for the burner. That setup was also unsuccessful. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
i use powerchute plus for linux (www.apcc.com click on software downloads) since its a back ups pro make sure u got the black cable, my back ups pro came with a grey cable and i spent hours trying to get it to work to no avail, APC sent me a black cable free of charge which was cool of them i guess. nate On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Alberto Maurizi wrote: albert albert Does anybody out there use this UPS to protect albert Linux boxes from power failure? albert I'm trying to figure out what is the best among albert all the available packages (apcd, pacupsd, genpower, albert ...), to manage such a kind of UPS. albert I'm getting more and more confused reading all the albert documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, albert and so on. albert albert Any suggestion? albert albert Thanx, albert Alberto albert albert albert -- albert Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null albert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:18am up 123 days, 21:07, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.28, 0.29
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
you try powerchute plus for linux yet ? its been out for a few months now..kinda nice..make sure you got trhe black cable and not a grey cable though. nate On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: rabe On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:27:21 + (/etc/localtime), Alberto Maurizi wrote: rabe rabe I'm getting more and more confused reading all the rabe documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, rabe and so on. rabe rabe So do I. Even worse: NONE of the ups daemons seem to work. rabe rabe We use the apcupsd to drive a SmartUPS 2200. Shutting the machine down DOES rabe work, but the daemon doesn't shut down the UPS?! rabe rabe Hints anyone?! rabe rabe rabe -- rabe Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. rabe http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ rabe of a GNU /( )\ rabeGeneration ^^-^^ rabe rabe rabe rabe -- rabe Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null rabe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:18am up 123 days, 21:07, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.28, 0.29
Re: MTA
Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 9:14:31 AM, Joe wrote: I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. Count me in as another vote for postfix. I used to run qmail back when I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I switched to Debian. postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being designed from the beginning for security. Personally I think any MTA is too much of an overkill for off-line reading/replying of email. Personally I think the MUA should have an option to defer the mail and then have a command-line option to have it deliver to a configured SMTP server, supplied by the ISP, who then performs delivery from there. But, hey, what do I know. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: MTA
*- On 21 Dec, Steve Lamb wrote about Re: MTA Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 9:14:31 AM, Joe wrote: I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a small site. Count me in as another vote for postfix. I used to run qmail back when I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I switched to Debian. postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being designed from the beginning for security. Personally I think any MTA is too much of an overkill for off-line reading/replying of email. Personally I think the MUA should have an option to defer the mail and then have a command-line option to have it deliver to a configured SMTP server, supplied by the ISP, who then performs delivery from there. But, hey, what do I know. The MUA Tkrat does this. It is tcl/tk based and does allow you to defer all messages and then send them out(via a menu selection) whenever you want to a smtp host. I personally don't use this feature but it is there. Version 1.2 is currently packaged for Debian and 2.0 beta5 is available from http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~maf/ratatosk/. There are also several MTA's designed for dial-up accounts that don't have all the advanced features of sendmail, smail, exim, qmail, etc. Masqmail being one that I am curious about which is packaged for potato. Haven't tried it as I don't have time to deal with a change in MTA config right now. But it does look interesting as it is meant to work with ppp and the ip-up scripts. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Modem does not work
Pedro == Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pedro It is an internal PCI modem, Windows says that it is on COM3, Pedro IRQ10, so it should be in /dev/ttyS3, but I only have two Pedro serial connections working, No, COM3 == ttyS2 ! -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
Re: Virus scanner
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:37:18PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? Check out http://www.datafellows.com or http://www.mcafee.com They both sell linux-versions that are able to scan microsoft-files. If you decide to try them out please post your experience in this list or directly to me. Good luck. -- Sven Esbjerg http://www.dina.dk/~joker
Re: es1370 installs but doesn't work
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...discussion of diagnosing sound card snipped...] So Chris, your ES1370 works properly now? Can you do a cat /dev/sndstat? I've got an ES1371 that I've been wrestling off-and-on for months with. It's not important enough to buckle down and fix it, but it really bothers me that some of the HOWTO information seems to be so irrelevant concerning this card, like the inability to do a cat /dev/sndstat. I just don't have confidence in the HOWTO because of this, and the troubleshooting information just isn't there in enough detail to figure out what's going wrong. So anyway, after ranting here, my only question is, again, can you do a cat /dev/sndstat or does it still fail even though your sound card is working? The `cat /dev/sndstat' stuff appears to be something of a red herring here (with this hardware atleast). Just launch freeamp and play something. Does anyone here know why this is? The Sound-HOWTO seems out of date, and the kernel documentation is less than clear, so I sympathize with your frustration. Best wishes, cbb
Question on wmaker, startup does not really work
Hi there. I have a rather typical setup here, when I do startx as a user I have the basic X Server running with nothing on it. The startx on the console tells me that WindowMaker could not be started because of an invalid argument -- '-clientId' Is that error known? How do I get around it? This box is running bleeding edge potato from today. Thanks, Alexander (Cc welcome...) -- Alexander Koch - - WWJD - aka Efraim - PGP 0xE7694969 - ARGH-RIPE
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
If you can stand to use dumb-mode, try powstatd. http://www.debian.org/~psg/ Peter Alberto Maurizi wrote: Does anybody out there use this UPS to protect Linux boxes from power failure? I'm trying to figure out what is the best among all the available packages (apcd, pacupsd, genpower, ...), to manage such a kind of UPS. I'm getting more and more confused reading all the documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, and so on. Any suggestion? Thanx, Alberto -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev /null
Re: Virus scanner
Hi Michael, Is there a virus scanner available for linux that I can use to scan mails, downloads etc. before they even reach M$ systems? I am using AntiVir (www.antivir.de) which is free for private use, but there are Linux versions of McAfee, Sophos, KasperskyLab and more. A good overview (only in German) is here: http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/~link/security/av-linux.php3 I also use AMaVIS to scan my incoming mails: http://www.aachalon.de/AMaVIS/ Also take a look at: http://www.ce.is.fh-furtwangen.de/~link/security/av-linux-projekte.php3#english Good luck, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de PGP/GPG: see headers o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Windoze: For the one it is an operating system, for the others it is the longest virus of the world.
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:21:42 -0800 (PST), aphro wrote: you try powerchute plus for linux yet ? its been out for a few months Nope, but it seems as if I *should* give it a try now..kinda nice..make sure you got trhe black cable and not a grey cable though. I don't know which cable we got -- since I've set up the machine remotely. I've never seen it... :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Potato inconsistency
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, peter karlsson wrote: Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade: Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Known problem? Yes, it has been reported 14 times(!). I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. base-files_2.1.12 fixes it. Thanks.
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
I just went though all this with a smartups 620. If the cable came with the ups, it should have a part number on it. The documentation of apcupsd mentioned the different type and their numbers. I tried apcd without success, but apcupsd workes great. And it also seems to be more powerful than apcd... is this the case? Has anyone tried powerchute for linux yet? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:21:42 -0800 (PST), aphro wrote: you try powerchute plus for linux yet ? its been out for a few months Nope, but it seems as if I *should* give it a try now..kinda nice..make sure you got trhe black cable and not a grey cable though. I don't know which cable we got -- since I've set up the machine remotely. I've never seen it... :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
documentation
Hi all, We're trying to find an easy-to-use, cross-platform help system generator that will do on-line, hypertext, searchable documentation, as well as being able to print out the hardcopy. It there such a thing? We'd like to be able to use it on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Dec Tru64-Unix, SGI IRIX, and HP-UX. Thanks -- -bob Particle physicists are always trying to hold a meeting, but whenever they decide on a place, the time changes. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *MS 0847 Sandia National Labs * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Albuquerque NM 87185-0441 * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (505) 844-8606 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (505) 844-9297 * **
pppd died
Hey I have just installed the Corel Linux, I have gotten everything to run pretty smoothly on it however when I try to connect to the internet it returns an error message every time saying pppd daemon died unexpectedly. All the setting dial up setting in there dial up program are correct as I have checked them against the ISP. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Jake
Re: pppd died
Jacob Smith wrote: Hey I have just installed the Corel Linux, I have gotten everything to run pretty smoothly on it however when I try to connect to the internet it returns an error message every time saying pppd daemon died unexpectedly. All the setting dial up setting in there dial up program are correct as I have checked them against the ISP. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Jake This is a Debian user list, so you'll find most of the readers (including me) have no experience of Corel. So you may find some of the suggestions vary from your setup. But, it's worth looking in /var/log as a rule when things break down. In this case the files you want to check are : /var/log/ppp-connect-errors /var/log/ppp.log If you can't get the answer from this and the system documentation, ask again, enclosing the log extracts. -- Regards, Paul
new email address
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Re: Startup-scripts
*- On 21 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Startup-scripts *please CC all replies to me, as I am not subscribed to this list. thanks* Hello all, I am using Debian GNU/Linux potato i386. I have written a ipchains firewall script that I would like to be executed automatically during startup. Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that Debian has rules Where would I put this (shell) script? I know that Debian has rules about the proper way to do certain system config things - what is the proper way to do this? Put your script in /etc/init.d. Try and make it accept 'start' and 'stop' arguments if appropriate. See /etc/init.d/README and /etc/init.d/skeleton for an example and pointers to more documentation. Then run the command: update-rc.d ipmasq start 41 S . This will place the appropriate links in the /etc/rcS.d and other directories, you need to at least start it after the network is setup(S40). If you want, install the ipmasq package and look at its startup script for an example that is probably more in line with what you want(it does not use the start-stop-daemon program). Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in thei shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Setting Path ENV variable
ok.. I've found the .bashrc in /root and put the path statement into there. Yet is still gives only the standard path (login and type: set). Are there multiple places where this needs to be set? The syntax is: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/x11:/usr/code/c/util:/usr/code/c /space:/etc/ppp:/etc/ppp/peers TIA for any help. Andy -- From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Setting Path ENV variable Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 7:44 PM Andy Thomas wrote: Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? To get to that file you have to be signed in as root or su to root and cd to the /root directory. I'm trying to add some directories to the search path. I found a file named /etc/profile with a PATH statement in it, but attempts to add to that don't work. The comment at the top says it's the system-wide profile for bash(1) I'm by no means an expert on this but I've found that /etc/profile effects my console sessions and not my 'X' sessions. hth, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: custom colors for 'ls'
uh... what's in the .dircolors file? Thanks Andy -- From: John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: custom colors for 'ls' Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:16 AM Hey, great tip Aaron. It's , err colorful :) John Aaron Solochek wrote: I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile alias ls=ls --color=auto eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` and I've attached my .dircolors -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * Window users: Move up to Linux * * Linux users: Move up to Debian * -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: pppd died
The new Corellinux is based on Debian, Kernel 2.2.12, so there may be a few Corel users, (me) out there. Corel has done new deb packages. ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/
